The legal battle over abortion-by-mail in the US has begun - and the stakes are high | Moira Donegan

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : This fight will test whether pro-choice states can protect providers who mail abortion pills to anti-choice statesThe legal battle over the interstate mailing of abortion pills has begun.
53% : The lawsuit, filed in a Texas state court but almost certainly the beginning of a federal legal battle, marks the first formal legal challenge by an anti-abortion attorney general against a Democratic-controlled state's shield laws, which protect abortion providers from out-of-state liability, and is slated to test how far pro-choice states can go to protect providers within their state borders - and how much force anti-choice states can give to their abortion bans beyond theirs.
50% : Carpenter is part of the Abortion Coalition for Telemedicine, or Act, a national network of doctors located in pro-choice states that dispense abortion medication through the mail; she has also worked with the abortion access advocacy groups Hey Jane and AidAccess.

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